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Oct 12 (Reuters) - Tomer Hemed grabbed a hat-trick as Israel destroyed Luxembourg 6-0 in World Cup Group F qualifying on Friday to hand a first win to coach Eli Guttman. The visitors dropped 32-year-old captain Yossi Benayoun but Guttman's decision paid off as they ran riot with Mahran Radi, Eden Ben Basat and man of the match Maor Melicsohn also on target. To cap a miserable evening for bottom of the table Luxembourg, Dan Da Mota fired a penalty high over the bar in the 81st minute.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel coach Eli Guttman dropped stalwart captain Yossi Benayoun from his squad on Saturday ahead of back-to-back World Cup European group F qualifiers against Luxembourg next week. The West Ham United midfielder was one of a number surprise omissions from a list of 23 named ahead of the October 12 clash in Luxembourg and the return fixture in Tel Aviv four days later. Guttman offered no explanation for the move in statement issued by the Israel Football Association, but local media reports said players had been dropped because they were not getting regular playing time at their clubs.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Troubled Franco-Belgian bank Dexia is working on raising cash, its chief executive told Belgian business newspaper L'Echo in an article published on Saturday. "Every day that passes we get closer to the deadline, because Dexia is continuing to lose money," Karel de Boeck told the paper. "We are therefore working on raising capital. " He said he did not know whether the capital raising would be at the end of this year, or the beginning of next. De Boeck said the bank was considering either a recurring yearly capital raising, or a one-off operation, but declined to say how much cash it would seek to raise.

ROME, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Italy will play France in a friendly at Parma's Ennio Tardini Stadium on Nov. 14, returning to the ground for the first time since earthquakes shocked the Emilia-Romagna region in May. "We will return to Parma, where we should have played Luxembourg but didn't because of the earthquake, for Italy-France," Italian Football Federation (FIGC) president Giancarlo Abete said on Friday after a federal council meeting. Cesare Prandelli's side were due to play Luxembourg in Parma on May 29 in a warm-up game for Euro 2012 but the second in a series of earthquakes that caused massive damage to the north of central Italy resulted in the match being cancelled.

Underscoring the popularity of Austrian helmer Ulrich Seidl on the arthouse circuit, Philippe Bober's Coproduction Office has inked a flurry of sales deals on the director's "Paradise" trilogy. The trilogy comprises Kenya-set "Paradise: Love," which competed this year at Cannes; "Paradise: Faith," in the race for Venice's Golden Lion; and "Paradise: Hope," currently in post. The pic package has gone to Austria (Stadtkino), Belgium (Lumiere), CIS (Maywin), Denmark (Ost for Paradis)